This is a design contest to design Christmas-themed warm-up and closing screens that can be used on our units:

Who: Anyone can enter (over the age of 18). You do not have to own or buy an Astak eBook reader to participate. You also do not have to become a Fan of Astak on Facebook (although we would appreciate that ).

What: Design requirements: two grayscale pictures in BMP or JPG format, 600×800 pixels each, depicting a Christmas or holiday theme. One picture must be for the start-up screen of the EZ Reader Pocket PRO, and another picture for the shut-down screen. The start-up screen must legibly contain the words “Astak EZ Reader Pocket PRO”, and the closing screen must contain some phrase that indicates that the unit is shutting down. You must submit a picture with your own original drawing or original photo. If it contains drawings, illustrations, or photographs that you are not legally allowed to be used, then we cannot select them as winners.

This time my illustrious marketing crew actually stated rules and gave full info. They did not ask for my advice; but it looks like fun. The so-called "RULES" are easily stated. I still wish they would ask my input first... but the "Wild Bunch" rode without me. Please forgive some poor English and grammatical mistakes.

Is the contest located somewhere that *doesn't* require a Facebook account to read it? (I believe I'll eventually break down & get a FB account. Probably. In the meantime, FB content pretty much doesn't exist for me.)

Is the contest located somewhere that *doesn't* require a Facebook account to read it? (I believe I'll eventually break down & get a FB account. Probably. In the meantime, FB content pretty much doesn't exist for me.)

Dear elfwreck:

Good post!! I think they are still trying to build up the facebook friends thing. You do not have to become an Astak Facebook Friend but they way they set it up you must have a Facebook Account.

Sorry. We are looking forward to your entry. It is just that the Pumpkin contest had 40 comments in a few days. We were getting scared.

Most of the people I know on FB use it for connecting with old friends or people they know in real life. They don't use it for looking at company sites. Most of the people I know on the blogging platforms, or who frequent message boards, dislike Facebook's image- and code-heavy layout and all the annoying widgets, plus lack of serious discussion areas.

Most of the people I know on FB use it for connecting with old friends or people they know in real life. They don't use it for looking at company sites. Most of the people I know on the blogging platforms, or who frequent message boards, dislike Facebook's image- and code-heavy layout and all the annoying widgets, plus lack of serious discussion areas.

The market for ebook readers doesn't hang out on Facebook.

MobileRead has a FB page with over 1000 fans. I would bet a few of these people might have a bit of interest in ebook readers.

OK... So, I have some pictures, and I'd like to try fortune... But...
How I can post the pictures?
Via E-mail? Or directly into this thread?
Thanks for advices...

Follow the competition link Robert posted in his initial post in this thread. The rules state the pictures are to be uploaded to the facebook page, however I do not believe you need to be a member of facebook to enter.